Monday, July 15, 2013

The Dirty Picture....

The Lion in Winter.... Husainsaab was one of the most inspiring figures in my life. I was so lucky to know him, spend time with him, watch him paint.... just hang with him .... run into him in different cities of the world, enjoy chai at home, tuck into his matchless kheema with fresh green garlic shoots finely chopped, or the biryani at his home, and the sheer korma during Eid. I miss him.

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This appeared in Asian Age....

Sexy,Sexy,Sexy
Mujhe Log Boley….

Raghavji aandar chala gaya. Jai ho! But
just one sexual fiend paying for what he did to a man servant over years , is
not going to change a thing. Sexual exploitation in some form of the other has
been an inextricable part of the political duniya for the longest time. It’s
just another component of the power games netas play – no shame, zero apologies.Nobody
talks about it openly. Nobody wants to. It’s a given. Netas have their
perks.And those perks include sexual slaves. Period. Earlier, rascals like Raghavji used to get away with the crime.Today, they
have to be wary of whistle blowers who rush to the media with incriminating
evidence. Gone are those distant days
when our netas routinely abused their positions… and the helplessness of
victims… without anybody daring to speak out against them. But Raghavji,
unfortunately for him, got caught with his dhoti down. And now faces a 7 year
jail term. Yes, his red faced BJP bosses have been compelled to expel the man
who has been the finance minister in Madhya Pradesh twice over after the sordid
saga went public. But somehow, Shivshanker Pateria,the man who exposed
Raghavji, and who piously calls himself
a ‘crusader against sexual slavery’, sounds like just another publicity
seeker. He claims he outed Raghavji in
order to cleanse the party of ‘dirty elements’. If anything, the script of this
particular sex scandal is far worse than the scripts of C-grade porno films churned out by the film
industry . Pateria, mainly known as a stooge of
Uma Bharti, is a small time
political worker, hoping to hit big time by sucking up to a succession of local
leaders.Thwarted in his political ambitions and frustrated at the lack of ‘respect’, perhaps this was Shivshanker’s last
ditch attempt to attract the attention of his political mentors. An attempt
that may have backfired now that he has been suspended from the party by the
State BJP chief, Narendra Singh Tomar. It’s almost comical to read Tomar’s
statement urging party workers to ‘serve humanity’. Pateria’s response to that piece of advice is
funnier still. He said he was indeed serving humanity when he made the
incriminating sex CD that finally nailed Raghavji. It features the victim,
Rajkumar Dangi,Raghavji’s domestic help. Forget Pateria’s nobility for the
moment.Here’s a case that deserves deeper scrutiny. Sexually exploiting
domestic help ( male or female) is a common enough occurrence across India. It
involves various elements – caste being the main one. Exploitation of lower
caste individuals takes several nasty forms -
rape is just one of them. While details about this particular case are
still coming in, what it sounds like is just another manifestation of how
easily caste and class can be used to destroy weaker individuals - in
this case, Rajkumar Dangi.

As of now, this case interests the media. A
month down the line, nobody will remember or care . Raghavji’s political career
is effectively over. But hey…. he is 79-years-old and has served two terms as
Finance Minister of his State. It is Dangi, the young accuser/ victim whose
life stretches ahead of him. Right now, he is being looked at with a mixture of
disgust and sympathy. His ‘usefulness’ will soon be exhausted, once the
public’s curiosity fades. What then?
Will Dangi seek employment as a domestic help in some other politico’s home?
Will a political party pick him up and promise to make him an overnight neta in
his own right? Will he be stupid enough to fall for the bait? Contest
elections? Participate in a reality show? Anything is possible – kidnapping,
assault even murder. Poor Dangi is a nobody. He is entirely dispensable. He has
served a certain purpose and can be eliminated – no questions asked. Look at
the notorious Noida serial murder case in Delhi. 17 innocent victims were lured
into businessman Moninder Singh
Pandheri’s den and subsequently butchered, allegedly by Surendra Koli, his
servant. Where is that bizarre case
going? Who is tracking it? In India, we have become a bit too cynical to bother
about the kinky,disgusting sex lives of perverted buddhas like Raghavji or
Pandheri. And we are too lazy to see the bigger picture or observe a sinister
pattern . How can we forget the nasty whispers one used to hear in the old days
about another piece of work called Sitaram Kesri?

We accept sexual exploitation as a part and
parcel of our complex and convoluted feudal social system. Sodomising a servant
is merely an extension of the master’s absolute right over the domestic help’s
life….his/her body, mind and soul. It is considered pretty ‘normal’. Which is
why the current outrage won’t last beyond this weekend. Which is also why the
political class can afford to be this complacent. Worse stories have appeared
and disappeared . The horrific Nirbhaya
rape case is all but buried. Give it a few more months and it will be totally
forgotten. For all our moral huffing and
puffing, for all our public posturing and big talk about being a peace loving
people, the ghastly truth is that we are nauseatingly , gut churningly violent
as a nation. We care nothing for our women and children. We look down on those
born into lower castes. We have no real fellow feelings for those under
privileged citizens surviving on less than 20 rupees a day. And deep down we
really don’t believe there is anything all that terrible about a randy old
minister buggering his man servant. Which is why, Dangli should give up any
dream he may be nurturing about a better life in future… a life of dignity. He
is doomed to remain the ‘Launda-who-squealed’ on his master. Tragic… but true.

A more apt title would have been, Dirty Men! Amongst others, the one in the picture himself, Husain! He dared had not done a blasphemous obscenity on any of the great and good or the only one of his so so tolerant and secular faith. Life and limb were obviously much more precious to the wimp. Such an outrage would have invited an obvious halal chop from the neck or the sainted chap would at best have ended up with a limb or two short! The more communal and violent Hindus were so obviously a better bet. All said, however, i was disgusted at the way the man was hounded out of his country. He was an Indian and whatever his offence, no body had the right to scare him out of his own country. This is exactly what your majesty finds so disagreeable about many of such Sangh Parivar loonies. They are trying to Islamise my great religion and for me nothing can be more blasphemous. We have every right to criticise and express our disgust at something we do not agree with, but the Islamic way is not what this otherwise Nobel land of ours deserves. In parting, Shobha Didi, just a question for you and the rest to ponder over. Is it not a bit odd and a whole lot more insulting that in the Indian narrative, Muslims, certainly the most communal of all the faiths and belief systems in the entire solar system and beyond, are being wooed in the name of secularism? So so sick! And God, you too are so so wickedly mischievous!Have an insightful ponder over?

No one hounded out MFH out of the country but he chose to stay out. As pointed out by mr.patel, he stayed out of any mischief while painting anything to do with his own religion but wanted his pound of freedom of expression or artists right while depicting Hindu God and Goddesses and got punished for it. Had he been a man enough, he shud have stayed in the country to face the consequences as he had the money and support of like minded people byt he rather ran away to die in a distant land longing for his mother land which is the misfortune he brought upon himself.

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